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Amazon Bedrock deployments including Claude family models, Titan Embeddings v2, and Bedrock Guardrails (PHI/PII detection); expertise in provisioned throughput vs on-demand capacity management, model evaluation automation, prompt versioning and registry integration, inference monitoring (latency, cost, token usage), and guardrail performance tracking; ability to build automated quality gates for foundation model outputs.\n\n- AWS ML Services: Proficiency with AWS Glue ETL, Bedrock, S3, ECR, CloudWatch, and Step Functions.\n\n- Container Technologies: Strong Docker skills including multi-stage builds, optimization techniques, and container orchestration.\n\n- Python Programming: Proficient in Python for pipeline orchestration, data processing, and automation scripts (boto3, sagemaker SDK, pandas/polars).\n\n- CI/CD Tools: Experience with GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, or similar CI/CD platforms for ML workflows.\n\n- Infrastructure as Code: Familiarity with AWS CDK, CloudFormation, 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